[Wisdom
from Channeler Rana of Year 2150 AD:
Chapter Eight: RELIGION AND GOD: Booklet “The Prophetess,
Conversations With Rana (and Jon Lake, Ph.D. Student, who went to sleep in 1976
and awoke 174 years into the future in a culture known as the Macro Society),”
Published 1976] [EXCERPT from a larger collection of conversations compiled by
Thea Alexander]
Man’s desire for spiritual oneness was thwarted by his
desire for possessions. The resulting frustration produced a desire to escape
this dilemma by pretending he could have both. Thus, micro religion was born
and functioned as a powerful divisive influence throughout your recorded
history.
True,
there were many dedicated and sincere religious leaders. Most prominent of your
time were the dynamic and charismatic Billy Graham, and the intensely serious
and worried Pope Paul.
These
were outwardly very different men, yet in spite of—and because of—their great
faith in their own divisive religion, they both shared great fear and guilt
which they unconsciously denied by...
…
devoting their energies to worshipping a micro God whom they believed would
save them from their ‘sins’ if they would be ‘good’—and by
…
persuading and manipulating others into believing as they did.
So
you see, we in the Macro society do not use the micro term God nor do we
practice a micro religion. Instead we practice a Macro philosophy which unites
all religions, all philosophies, all arts, all sciences, everything and
everyone, into one understanding, accepting, dynamically evolving whole—the
Macro self.
When
someone thinks or speaks of the Macro self he is automatically reminded that
all is one and all is perfect. Our Macro self is the only possession that is
not a possession, for thinking about our Macro self automatically obviates
thinking of any divisions, possessions, fears, or limitations.
In
your time the thought of giving up God or religion seemed appalling and
horrible to some. The fact was, however, that most people had already made the
substitution and were, instead, worshipping drugs, sex, a career, possessions,
T.V., and their country as Gods and embracing capitalism, socialism, communism,
etc. as their religion!
By
the beginning of the 21st century most of these divisions and most possessions
had gone by the wayside due to the cataclysmic death and destruction of micro
man and all that he worshipped.
Though
the micro family was man’s greatest divisive possession, God and religion came
next until supplanted by racism, nationalism and materialism.
While
the havoc wreaked upon the earth by these forces was fearsome, they were just
the “. . .birth-pangs of the new age,” which produced widespread awareness of
the Macro oneness of all and, ultimately, formation of the Macro society.
These
are the signs of micro religion:
1)
Wanting something (e.g., God) or someone (e.g., Jesus) that is separate from us
to save us from the consequences of our “unworthy sinful” selves.
2)
Trying to convince our selves of this myth by persuading others to believe in
it.
The
chief controlling, convincing, and coercive factor of religion was fear.
Some
religions taught you to fear a mythical demon called Satan or the Devil. Some
taught you to fear others who were not of your faith. Some taught you to fear
your own ‘wicked, sinful’ self, while others taught you to fear God himself!
Many religions covered all possibilities by teaching you to fear Satan, others,
yourself, and God!
With
this massive fear of self/others/universe/God, it was not surprising that the
word God came to mean some strange power somewhere out in space that eternally
spies on every thought, word, and deed, waiting to heap ill fate (at best!) and
eternal hell-fire and damnation onto those whose tally of sins got too high.
Understand,
Jon, that anything you worship, and yet perceive as separate from your self,
will be feared and, ultimately, hated. The process is this:
1.
You view yourself as less than perfect and, thus, separate from God who is
perfect and, therefore, good.
2.
If God is good and you are not God, but less than God, then you are not good r
you are less than good. And what is that? It is bad!
3.
This appraisal of self creates guilt, which produces resentment, which, in
turn, produces hate.
4.
Take micro religion and add to it this miserable appraisal of self as related
to God and you have a God who is not only feared but also resented and hated.
With
this alienated, fearsome vision of ‘God’ it is not surprising that the favorite
swear words of your time were “God damn!”
In
the mid 1900’s, in an attempt to avoid the negative connotations of the word
‘God’, people started using other words to refer to what was originally meant
by the word ‘God’. Universal energy, universal mind, cosmic energy, and the
Macro self, were among these terms.
As
years passed the term Macro self was retained as most correctly describing the
perfect oneness of all that is, all that was, and all that ever will be.
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